Improved awning and reflector



i Unirse STATES PATENT @Friese JOSEPH ooRDUAN, or BROOKLYN, New 'rotin'.

lMPRCVED AWNING AND PtEFLECTQPt.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,524, dated May 2, 1F65.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GORDUAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinventcd, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in an Awning and Reflector Combined;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a section of my awning and retlcctor asin place for use, and Fig. 2 is a plain of a portion ofthe awning at the ends of the slats.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

The awnings usually employed in front of stores obstruct thc light to too great an extent, and are a great inconvenience because of the trouble incident to spreading aud furling the same, and changes in the atmosphere require the awning to bc varied, or the light is very unequal.

The nature of my said invention consists in a series of slats mounted on axes and provided. with crankarms connected by a bar that is operated bycords or any similar device,so that the slats can be turned suiicientlyto exclude the direct rays of the sun, and at the same time the lslats become reflectors to illuminate the store. Thus the awning becomes an easily-managed equalizer of the light both beneath itself and in the store in front of which it is located A In the drawings@ is a suitable frame ofthe desired size containing holes for the reception of the axes of the slats b b. 0n one end of the slats the axes project, and are formed as cranks o, connected together by a bar, d, that is operated on by cords or ropes acting on the levers l 1, or in any suitable manner, so that the slats b-b can be placed at the desired angle. These slats may be made ot' polished metal, or painted, so as to become a rcilecting-surface that will throw light into the store or building in front ot'which it is located. The angle at which these slats are placed can be varied with great facility, so that the direct rays of the sun only are excluded from below the awning, while the light shining upon the slats will be reflected ott' almost horizontally, as indicated by the dotted lines.

By closing the-slats entirely rain will he excluded, as the water willdrip off the lower edge of one slat upon the upper surface ofthe slat next below'.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combined awning and reector, contructed and applied substantially as specied. v

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 13th day of October, 1864.

JQSEPH ooDUAN. 

